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Details |
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- Available at: Authorized Prometric testing centers
- Prerequisites: None
- Other exams/assignments required for this
certification: None
- Exam type: Objective test, multiple choice/short
answer
- Number of questions: 61
- Pass score: 65% (40 items of 61)
- Time limit: 120 minutes
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Exam Objectives |
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| Section 1: Define
SAN Fundamentals |
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- Describe the purpose, features, and functions of a
SAN environment, including hardware and software components with
their relationships to each other.
- Given descriptions, differentiate between SAN,
NAS, and DAS.
- Describe the purpose, features, and function of
Fibre Channel in SAN.
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| Section 2:
Describe Business Problems Solved by SAN
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- Given NAS/DAS or SAN networks, identify LAN-free
backup problems.
- Distinguish between how disk and tape backups are
achieved in SAN.
- Identify the issues that must be considered for
scalability in NAS/DAS and SAN environments.
- Identify how SAN improves storage connectivity and
scalable bandwidth.
- Recognize ways in which SAN architecture can
improve high availability to data.
- Recoginze ways in which SAN improves disaster
recovery.
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| Section 3: Define
SAN Topologies |
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- Identify benefits and constraints of
point-to-point topology as it relates to SAN.
- Identify benefits and constraints of arbitrated
loop topology as it relates to SAN.
- Identify benefits and constraints of cascade and
meshed Fabric topologies as they relate to SAN.
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| Section 4: Explore
SAN Hardware Components |
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- Define the functionality, role, and Fibre Channel
requirements of SAN in multi-platform environments including HP/UX,
LINUX, Solaris Operating System, AIX, and NT.
- Define the integration of disk and tape devices in
a SAN environment.
- Describe ways to extend fiber in a SAN
environment, including types of fiber extenders, GBIC/cables,
repeaters, WDM, and FC-ATM bridge over backbone/long haul.
- Describe the functionality and role of Host
BusAdapter (HBA) in a SAN environment.
- Describe the functionality and role of switches in
the SAN environment, including types of switches and switch
interoperability.
- Describe the role of SAN hubs, SAN bridges and SAN
routers in the SAN environment.
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| Section 5: Explore
SAN Management Software |
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- Describe the purpose, features, and functions of
SAN management software.
- Compare and contrast in-band versus out-of-band
management.
- Given a scenario, explain the relationship of SAN
management and enterprise management.
- Compare and contrast zones.
- Explain LUN Masking.
- Given a scenario, explain how multi-pathing
software increases data availability.
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| Section 6: Design
and Troubleshoot Storage Area Network (SAN) Solutions |
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- Recognize the business objectives that must be
considered when gathering design requirements, including the
business goal, cost considerations, availability goals, performance
and usability criteria.
- Describe why it is important to produce an
installation and testing plan.
- Recoginize the technical objectives that must be
performed (usability, scalability, serviceability, and reliability)
and how they integrate into the existing infrastructure.
- Given a scenario, select the appropriate
components to use in a SAN solution.
- Given a scenario, predict what will happen if SAN
equipment is taken out of commission.
- Identify all software components that can affect a
SAN implementation.
- Identify all hardware components that can affect a
SAN implementation.
- Given a scenario, select and test an appropriate
disaster recovery plan for a SAN environment.
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